Crosby in the Blitz

CROSBY Herald readers have been sharing their memories of the Blitz during the Second World War.
Reader Arthur Roper told the Herald how his father Thomas Roper served in the auxiliary fire service team during the 1942 1941* May Blitz.

His father, who lived in Norway Street, Waterloo, was one of many members of the team who rescued people from the Seaforth and Bootle areas which were both heavily bombed during the Nazis' onslaught on the country's main dockland areas.
Arthur, 80, said: "The Blitz went on for five or six nights. There was a lot of destruction.
"My father - who was 40 at the time - would never speak about what he did though, for understandable reasons.
"He and the other members of the team had to take out the people who didn't survive a bombing at a cinema on Stanley Road, Bootle.
"No-one survived at all."

*Thanks to commenter John for pointing out the error